Thematic Bible
Proverbs 2:1 (show verse)
My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,
Proverbs 2:2 (show verse)
[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.
Proverbs 2:3 (show verse)
For if you cry out for understanding, [if] you lift your voice for insight,
Proverbs 2:4 (show verse)
if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},
Proverbs 2:5 (show verse)
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and the knowledge of God you will find.
Proverbs 2:6 (show verse)
For Yahweh will give wisdom; from his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7 (show verse)
For the upright, he stores sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,
Proverbs 2:8 (show verse)
[in order] to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful [ones].
Proverbs 2:9 (show verse)
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--
Proverbs 2:10 (show verse)
for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.
Proverbs 2:11 (show verse)
Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you,
Proverbs 2:12 (show verse)
[in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--
Proverbs 2:13 (show verse)
those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,
Proverbs 2:14 (show verse)
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,
Proverbs 2:15 (show verse)
{who are crooked in their ways}, and devious in their paths;
Proverbs 2:16 (show verse)
[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,
Proverbs 2:17 (show verse)
she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
Proverbs 2:18 (show verse)
for her house sinks to death, and to the dead are her paths.
Proverbs 2:19 (show verse)
[Of] all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life.
Proverbs 2:20 (show verse)
So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
Proverbs 2:21 (show verse)
For those who are upright will dwell [in the] land, and those who are blameless will remain in it.
Proverbs 2:22 (show verse)
And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.